Eh... I'm not really sure how fair it is to include DCCGs [Digital Collectible Card Games] like Hearthstone, Hex, and Mt:GO in comparison with loot boxes in other games as M:tG uses packs as their primary card distribution method for most of their sets and expansions.
I mean, if you're going to condemn the DCCGs, at least condemn the real world CCGs while you're at it.

Yeah, I mean, they push out so much content that it's probably one of the reasons why FFXIV is actually able to go toe to toe with WoW.
Blizzard will take note though, which is only going to be a win for everyone.

You know what the great irony of all this is:
Warframe (made by Digital Extremes) just released Plains of Eidolon FOR FREE with a ton of ingame demand and it's largley working. That's with over 150 instances of the associated city attached to the open world and it allows you to (for the first time in Warframe) seamlessly walk from the city to right outside the games and start missioning.
The difference? One studio loves their product to pieces (and it shows) and will bend over backwards for the community, while the other wouldn't know PR if it bit them in the ass.
And they are both F2P games to boot.
That date has, oddly enough, been very lucky for my family.
And no, our last name isn't Adams or Munster.
Never underestimate the power of stupidity and the arrogance that comes with it.

Patch Notes: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/cfd6b53bc9cd08b494512a662c04942848db9539
Oh my word that final duty [solo instance] (the one with the primal) was mind blowing. I loved how they made what had become basically mooks into something that actually had very strong dramatic tension as you were put to work trying to keep everyone alive and untempered.
And my word the character development in the MSQ.
New 4 man is fun, haven't done either new raid yet, and there's still the new Hildibrand and beast tribe quests left to do.

Well, a new KB for 10 has destabilized LotRO on certain platforms.
https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?658589-Game-crashing-more-regularly-because-of-Windows-Update-KB4038788
While I got flamed much for suggesting that SSG open up a support contract with Microsoft to leverage their dev support teams (which is at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/premier ), because a lot of those engineers can very quickly root cause many of the performance issues that their client faces, and do so a hell of a lot faster than SSG is doing so.
Otherwise, that client will continue to be more screwed as time progresses.